David Matz is professor of classical languages at St. Bonaventure University, NY. He has authored six books on Greek and Roman history and culture.

This volume, using excerpts from ancient primary documents, brings the people of ancient Greece and Rome to life.

• PrefaceChronologyDomestic Life1. Growing Up in Sparta Was No Picnic2. A Failure to Launch, in an Athenian Family3. Even in Ancient Rome, the Dog Was Man's—and Woman's—Best Friend4. A Prearranged Marriage5. An Extremely Devoted WifeEducation6. Plutarch's Prescription for a Child's Education7. Socrates and Protagoras Discuss Issues in Education8. Funding for Roman Schools9. Spare the Rod, and Other Educational Precepts of QuintilianEmployment10. Pay It Back! Apollodorus and His Day in Court11. Workers Needed for Building the Parthenon12. Cicero Advises His Son on a Right and Proper Career13. The Sky Is No Longer the Limit: Diocletian's Cap on Wages and PricesFood and Clothing14. Plutarch and Friends Talk Dirty (Laundry)15. After a Long Day of Marching or Fighting, What Did the Homeric Heroes Eat?16. Spinning Thread and Making Clothing17. Controlling Appetite and Curbing Weight GainHealth Care18. Hippocrates and the Ethics of the Medical Profession19. A Medical Miracle Man Who Declined to Give an Encore Performance20. How to Obtain Good Health, and Keep It21. How the Mind Can Heal the BodyHousing22. Vitruvius's Description of an Elegant Home23. A Husband and Wife Discuss Their Domicile: A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place24. You Take Your Life in Your Hands if You Live in Rome25. Ah! At Last I Can Live Like a Human Being!Intellectual Life26. An Intellectual on Trial27. An Intellectual Who Invented Many Ingenious Devices28. An Intellectual Defends the Study of Literature29. An Intellectual Pays Tribute to His Uncle's Literary OutputPolitics30. Out with Him! An Athenian Method of Ridding the City of Tiresome Politicians31. Women in Politics? In Ancient Athens?32. Homegrown Terrorism?33. The Women of Rome Refuse to Back DownReligion34. Squabbling among the Gods Was a Major Headache for Zeus35. King Croesus Consults—and Bribes?—the Delphic Oracle36. Julius Caesar Becomes a God37. Job Description for a Vestal VirginSafety38. A Case of Assault and Battery39. Women? Taking Over the Acropolis?40. A Tribune Speaks, a Riot Ensues41. Everybody Talks about the Weather, but No One Does Anything about ItSports and Games42. The Goddess Was on His Side43. The (Ancient) World's Greatest Athlete44. "Put Me In, Coach": A Famous Athletic Trainer45. The Resume of Ancient Rome's Superstar CharioteerBiographical Sketches of Important Individuals Mentioned in TextGlossaryBibliographyIndex

David Matz is professor of classical languages at St. Bonaventure University, NY. He has authored six books on Greek and Roman history and culture.

This volume, using excerpts from ancient primary documents, brings the people of ancient Greece and Rome to life.

• PrefaceChronologyDomestic Life1. Growing Up in Sparta Was No Picnic2. A Failure to Launch, in an Athenian Family3. Even in Ancient Rome, the Dog Was Man's—and Woman's—Best Friend4. A Prearranged Marriage5. An Extremely Devoted WifeEducation6. Plutarch's Prescription for a Child's Education7. Socrates and Protagoras Discuss Issues in Education8. Funding for Roman Schools9. Spare the Rod, and Other Educational Precepts of QuintilianEmployment10. Pay It Back! Apollodorus and His Day in Court11. Workers Needed for Building the Parthenon12. Cicero Advises His Son on a Right and Proper Career13. The Sky Is No Longer the Limit: Diocletian's Cap on Wages and PricesFood and Clothing14. Plutarch and Friends Talk Dirty (Laundry)15. After a Long Day of Marching or Fighting, What Did the Homeric Heroes Eat?16. Spinning Thread and Making Clothing17. Controlling Appetite and Curbing Weight GainHealth Care18. Hippocrates and the Ethics of the Medical Profession19. A Medical Miracle Man Who Declined to Give an Encore Performance20. How to Obtain Good Health, and Keep It21. How the Mind Can Heal the BodyHousing22. Vitruvius's Description of an Elegant Home23. A Husband and Wife Discuss Their Domicile: A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place24. You Take Your Life in Your Hands if You Live in Rome25. Ah! At Last I Can Live Like a Human Being!Intellectual Life26. An Intellectual on Trial27. An Intellectual Who Invented Many Ingenious Devices28. An Intellectual Defends the Study of Literature29. An Intellectual Pays Tribute to His Uncle's Literary OutputPolitics30. Out with Him! An Athenian Method of Ridding the City of Tiresome Politicians31. Women in Politics? In Ancient Athens?32. Homegrown Terrorism?33. The Women of Rome Refuse to Back DownReligion34. Squabbling among the Gods Was a Major Headache for Zeus35. King Croesus Consults—and Bribes?—the Delphic Oracle36. Julius Caesar Becomes a God37. Job Description for a Vestal VirginSafety38. A Case of Assault and Battery39. Women? Taking Over the Acropolis?40. A Tribune Speaks, a Riot Ensues41. Everybody Talks about the Weather, but No One Does Anything about ItSports and Games42. The Goddess Was on His Side43. The (Ancient) World's Greatest Athlete44. "Put Me In, Coach": A Famous Athletic Trainer45. The Resume of Ancient Rome's Superstar CharioteerBiographical Sketches of Important Individuals Mentioned in TextGlossaryBibliographyIndex